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Art and Design Coins in the Classroom Art and Design Coins in the Classroom royalmint.com/kids Fact File 2 Reverse Design Facts Coins with the definitive shield reverse designs entered circulation in 2008. The original decimal designs had been in circulation for almost 40 years and it was felt they needed to be refreshed. The competition to design the coins was a public one and The Royal Mint received more than 4,000 designs from 526 people – the largest ever response to a public competition of this type in Britain. The £1 coin was not originally part of the design brief. A first sift of the drawings was made by three members of The Royal Mint Advisory Committee and 4,000 drawings were reduced to 418 designs. The 418 designs represented 52 series of coins. This was then whittled down to 18 designs representing three series. The designs chosen had to be not just pictures but symbols of the nation. It was decided that the heraldry on some designs was ‘too 2008 Shield Design by Matt Dent Hogwarts’ or ‘Narnia-like’ or it was ‘too gothic and overbearing’. It was said by The Royal Mint Advisory Committee that the winning entry broke ‘the mould in an exciting way’ and ‘is a truly modern series at last.’ Matt Dent The winner of the competition, with the pseudonym Designer Z (as all coin design competitions are anonymous), turned out to be a young graphic designer called Matt Dent, who trained at Coleg Menai in Wales and the University of Brighton. He said about his design that “the piecing together of the elements of the Royal Arms to form one design had a satisfying symbolism – that of unity, four countries of Britain under a single monarch.” Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Fact File 3 UK Coin Design A Penny For Your Thoughts The United Kingdom 1p coin was one of three new coins that joined the 5p, 10p and 50p in general circulation on 15 February 1971 when the United Kingdom adopted a new decimal currency system. The other two new coins were the 1/2p and 2p coins. To avoid confusion between the old and new coinage, all three coins had the world ‘NEW’ incorporated into the reverse design but this was later removed in 1982. The 1/2p was removed from circulation in 1984. The first copper-plated steel 1/2p coins were struck in 1992. The reason for this change was the increase in the price of metals on the world markets. The coins have a mild steel core and are electroplated with copper – consequently they are magnetic. All the new (1971) decimal reverse designs were the work of Christopher Ironside, apart from the Tudor Rose on the 20p introduced in 1982, which was designed by William Gardner. Christopher Ironside won a public competition where 83 entrants submitted 900 designs. Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Fact File 4 Britannia Britannia was first portrayed on coins by the Romans and has been used to symbolise Britain ever since. On the first 50p coin, Britannia sits beside a lion, holding a trident in her hand to show our proud maritime history and island status. In her other hand is an olive branch which symbolises peace. You can find out more about the history of Britannia by visiting www. royalmint.com and following: Discover Britannia. Commemorative 50 Pence The Royal Mint has been making commemorative 50 pence pieces since 1973. The designs are released into circulation and are also made in Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) quality. BU coins go through a slightly different process to make sure that they are not scratched. Coins in circulation are mass produced and made of mostly recycled metal. A list of all commemorative 50 pence coin designs can be found here on The Royal Mint Museum’s website. To find out more about commemorative coins, please take a look at our lesson ‘Designing Commemorative Coins.’ Coin Design at The Royal Mint The Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals, Seals and Decorations (RMAC for short) was formally established by George V in 1922 to help decide on new coin designs and raise the standard of numismatic (coin) art. The Committee is independent of The Royal Mint and is made up of sculptors, numismatic, heraldic and lettering specialists and other artists. His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was President of the Committee from 1952 until 1999. When a new British coin is required, artists and designers are asked by the RMAC to submit designs for a competition. Only sometimes are these competitions made open to the public, like the 2008 definitive coins reverse design competition and the London 2012 50p Sports Collection competitions. The Royal Mint has an in-house team of coin designers and engravers who are also encouraged to submit designs. Coin designs are submitted to the RMAC anonymously and then a decision is made as to which one the RMAC will recommend. Once a design has been chosen, approval must be gained from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and finally Her Majesty The Queen. Only then can the coin go into production. Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Fact File 5 Royal Heraldry Although the Royal Arms has told many stories over the centuries, what it now records is political union between kingdoms. Whether this is the best way to represent the modern United Kingdom is debated and doubted by some. Wales is absent because it was incorporated into England by Henry VIII in 1536, rather than being made a kingdom in its own right as Ireland was five years later. Wales is now represented heraldically on the full Coat of Arms of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. The old Welsh badge of the red dragon on a grassy mound was used by Henry VII to mark his descent from Cadwaladr. Today, the dragon is much better known as the flag of Wales. The dragon features along with The Prince of Wales’ other badge of three ostrich feathers. The full Royal Arms is made up of not just a shield but supporters (the lion and unicorn who support the shield), a crest (a crowned lion on top of the helmet), and the words ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ (‘Shame upon him who thinks evil upon it’) on the garter belt. There are in fact two versions of the Royal Coat of Arms; one used by England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and a slightly different one used by Scotland. The Royal Arms belongs to the Crown. However, rather than representing the monarch, the modern shield has come to represent the political make-up of the United Kingdom and now fulfills the role of national symbol. That our national symbol should belong to The Queen is part and parcel of living in a monarchy. (Source: K. Clancy (ed) ‘Designing Change’ The Royal Mint 2008) Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Fact File 6 Coin Design Links You might like to use the following to extend your work on coins and art through elements of literacy. Below are some verses that refer to the design of coins. As a class you could analyse the poem and then encourage pupils to write their own – either about coin design in general or about their piece of work on identity. Source: K. Clancy (ed) ‘Designing Change’ The Royal Mint 2008 (Chapter by Sir Christopher Frayling) Further information can be found at: www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk www.royalmint.com Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Can you solve the puzzle? 7 1 3 2 4 6 5 Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Answer 8 6 1 2 5 4 3 Art and Design royalmint.com/kids Here are some of the designs 9 you can find on thereverses of UK coins. Why do you think these designs have been chosen? What do they mean? Art and Design royalmint.com/kids The United Kingdom 10 There are 65.6 million people living in the UK. They come from many different cultures and religions and each person has a different identity. How do we represent them all on our coins? One way of solving the problem Coin designers will often use images or symbols on their coins that are familiar to lots of people. They hope that people will recognise the images and feel that the coins represent them. One thing to remember is that coins are very small and so the artists have a real challenge – how do they represent a big nation with a tiny design? Art and Design royalmint.com/kids The Queen has had five 11 portraits during her reign The Queen’s portrait represents the nation in a different way. How is this? Art and Design royalmint.com/kids The Royal Coat of Arms 12 The shield design is based on the Royal Coat of ArmsArms. Can you spot the design below? Wales is not represented on this shield but is instead represented on the Coat of Arms of The Prince of Wales. Art and Design royalmint.com/kids The Heraldic Shield 13 The Heraldic Shield coin design by Matt Dent The reverses on UK coins, introduced in 2008, solve the problem of representing the UK in another way ... The Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom since 1837 This design has been on UK coins since 2008 and features the Royal Arms (the shield used by the Royal Family). Since the thirteenth century, arms have been used by monarchs of the British Isles to show the coming together of kingdoms. The two Acts of Union that created the modern United Kingdom brought the shields of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland together to form one.
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